The end of the road [LWN.net]

The end of the road

Posted Jul 25, 2002 6:23 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
Parent article: The end of the road

This is very very sad news.
Every week I was looking forward to thursday to read the latest news from LWN. I read it since approx. 2 years, in this time it became my main information source about what's going on the linux/free software/IT world.
I know no other place like this, ./ has mostly prosa, so have the others.

I will miss LWN.net very much.

I just had a look at the donation page, I don't have a credit card and no paypal account yet (I'm just looking into it).
Is it actually possible to make repeated payings via paypal ?
(like 5 Euro every month ?)

How about creating such a fixed-price-regular donation, I wouldn't hesitate to pay let's say 1 to 2 Euro per week for LWN.net.
This would take away the burden of defining the amount yourself.

Bye
Alex

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The end of the road - monthly subscription

Posted Jul 25, 2002 9:28 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

I've found the LWN weekly edition the best summary of the linux related news and I've used ever since I've known of it.

As Alex, I would also have been interested in subscribing for a 5$/€ per month. This service makes me save time every week by providing these summaries. This information is useful for me on a professional side and its worth at least that.

I've not seen any poll to see how many persons would be interested in subscribing for the information. Too bad Linux software vendors cannot associate themselves to pay for the site.

Just to know, how many readers do you have per week? Or how many hits does your site generate?

The end of the road - monthly subscription

Posted Jul 25, 2002 9:39 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

I've just donated 50$. That's the first time I pay for something related to Linux, so all those who say its not possible to make a business on top of Linux can see that things can change.
I will also urge all my friends to do the same.